Sweet Apple Acres gets help from cousin Braeburn and his best buddy Mal, who Applejack has never been a big fan of. And in between all that, a certain pink party pony also finds romance, and we see more of our TwiMac couple.

Trapped in a sinister game of Sombra's doing in their dreams, Big Mac, Shining Armor, and Braeburn have to figure out how to escape the Dark King's clutches, while proving to a city full of mares who is the hottest stallion of them all.

Any stallion can tell you that asking out the mare you like is an almost impossible task. Not even Big Mac can escape the struggles of asking out that dream mare. Especially when that dream mare is no other than the one and only Rainbow Dash.

Who will win? You decide in this anthology of stories by the best of both boards. /co/ goes up against Ponychan at high noon, the best of the best writing under the prompt of a 'Big Mac Braeburn Western.'. Who wrote what? You won't know until the end of the competition one week from 11/15/11. In the mean time read the stories and tell us which ones are the creme of the crop, the board with the most high ranking stories is winner! The single highest rated story is champion! Who will it be? Read, vote and find out!

This was relatively short and sweet, and something that's not been done often so I thought I'd say "well done" on that front, but it's not very pony and not very well structured. Maybe that was a deliberate affectation. I also spy a "binded" which I'm pretty sure should be "bound"... I think it may be an allowed non-standard deviation.

All in all, whoever wrote it, try harder next time, and for goodness' sake quit it with the

That's amazing! I love how Big Macintosh and Braeburn were represented. This just made Big Mac and Brae rise again in my mental list of favorite ponies. (I also really love the Missus Smartypants insert at the end, there.)

There's a lot of jarring malapropisms that kind of feel like hitting the end of a leash. The title comes to mind, and there was a particularly amusing case with accepting "bowels" of food which caused me a few minutes of unintentional hilarity. I forget what the others were, but those are the most memorable.

Another thing that really bugs me is that Big Mac doesn't really show much personality other than "sudden vigilante murder machine". I mean, yeah he's tough enough to give chase right away and be smart enough to be armed respectively, but it just felt very one-dimensional in how it was done -- which comes off even worse when it's a dimension so contrary to the we all know.

You did give me some food for thought on how pony guns might work, but I'm kind of scratching my head about how a bolt-action rifle and the necessary shoulder mount fit in his saddlebag.

From what I gathered, Braeburn and Mac are trying to impregnate many a mares... and somehow, AJ knows about this, and somewhere, LSH comes into play, and Mac is drunk, and there's a crowd, and a sex dungeon...

From what I gathered, Braeburn and Mac are trying to impregnate many a mares... and somehow, AJ knows about this, and somewhere, LSH comes into play, and Mac is drunk, and there's a crowd, and a sex dungeon...

Correction: Ponychan won, with three of the top five stories, but /co/'s NTSTS was the champ. Congrats to all who participated!

15560 1. Family by NTSTS(7.8)10549 2. Hoof Full of Bits by Vanner (6.93)6752 3. The Quiet Dragon by Squeak (6.78)7193 4. How Does Your Garden Grow? by Applejinx (6.6)5453 5. The Singer, The Bandit and The Chicken by Usea (6.59)

3714 6. Western Side Story by Pacce(6.17)3148 7. Forever In Azures So Bright by Duplex (6.14)4470 8. Sweet'n Salty by Ion Strum (5.77)4570 9. Across the Broken Planes by Pagemaster (5.54)172 10. Poem of Friendship by Shuckle (4.22)